Marantz VP-15S1 1080P DLP 10000:1 Contrast, 30db Fan Noise, Coming September-

That would be $11,000 US.

$11,064 (U.S. dollars) at today's rate.

Jim

Sorry guys. I punched it into the calculator one I read in another thread that its was Euros. We all posted (me edited) simultaneously. Thanks

UVP in Germany/Europe includes 19% VAT. 8000.- is unbelievably CHEAP for a state of the art Marantz.

Excluding VAT it is 6723.- , and in electronics (like most anything else) Euro : Dollar is more like 1:1 when it comes to market prices.

$6500.- to $7000.- MSRP in the US is VERY likely considering this European price.

This is a huge surpise coming from Marantz!

This sounds like a pretty nice challenge at that price. Along with the IN82 some nice looking PJs. 8)

(Thanks JVC!)

Wow, this is great news! Things are finally heating up with the single chip 1080p machines. This can only be good news for all of us...

Fixed that for you.

so far most often the remains the same: EUR 8000 = $ 8000
like benq, optoma, SIM2, sharp etc.
not always but often.
because the euro = $1.37 and rising vs the European VAT (17-21%)

1000 ansi lumen ! I like that

$10/11k is alright. It's marantz. I believe its lens alone is worth the $$. I trust this will have the same quality of the sort of S4.

"I believe its lens alone is worth the $$. I trust this will have the same quality of the sort of S4."

My first thought at seeieng the price was that the lens must account for a good part of it.

And doesn't Marantz usually tout the lens mfgr?

Cool

Thanks for posting this. Made me very excited.
This one might finally be the one to replace my 12S3.

Does it have power lens shift and/or power zoom? Is the 1000 ansi lumens at D6500?

The fan may be 30 db but what about the colorwheel?


They also need to deliver twice the brightness to compete with the Pearl and RS-1...and three chips

I don't think it will be 1000 lumens at D65. However, there is a good chance that it will have somewhere in the region of 700 lumens at D65 which is pretty good going.

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The improved color wheels of the 1DLP machines has made it harder to spot rainbows, if that.

An increasing trend that is noticeable is that the specs of these newly announced DLP machines shows an increase in CR by quite some margin across the board in the region of 10,000:1 or more. The implementation of this improvement makes it interesting and the first one to get superb CR which is truly optical [projectiondesign was already claiming 7500:1 true optical contrast on their Action! units] rather than with the help of a dynamic iris will lead the pack.

This one looks good on paper for sure and it should be a good projector when it comes out.

Even to a S4 owner like me

Is that an increase in native CR or using auto iris or lamp modulation ?

Dazzer

Dazzer,

it is relying upon a iris in a fixed position, although user adjustable.
The Marantz seems to have the "Sharp design" implemented, i.e two-iris in the path to reach this spec. So i guess we are looking at 200-250 lumens in the high CR mode. I dont know what all the buzz is about on this one...i have to say..

I'd have to say that the price is the only thing buzz-worthy here. I agree that the specs aren't anything new and that we'd expect to see sub-300 lumens to come close to the rated CR.

My only real concern is with the throw... most DLP units seem to be suited for long throw applications (which I can't support).

FWIW I understood it to be the replacement for the VP-12s4

It is more accurate to say a "two-stops" user selectable iris than "two-iris" and, as it is spec'd at 1,000 ansi lumens, should be alot brighter than your guess of 200-250 lumens in the high CR mode.

I think the VP15S1 is more a replacement for the VP11S1 than the VP12S4 which is 720P and in a different category altogether.

Looking at the lens, the 15S1 should be a mid-throw projector.

Haw,

Why is two-stops more accurate to say, when that is not what i mean ?
I mean a two-iris mechanism, dual if you like. Atleast that is what i can translate from the german press release. if you have any other info, please, share.
if i am right, i don't care about the 1000 lumens spec. If you are right about a ordinary two-stops unit, then ok it might be a it brigther than my predictions.

I haven't tried the z20k, but one thing i like about marantz is their common color wheel speed design, meaning that they use 180hz even at 24hz input (converted to 48) which means that the wheel spins faster than ordinary for each frame of data, with a higher sub frame rate. Therfore the RBE is reduced.

He is inferring that it uses a similar system to the Sharp 20k which indeed does have two irises. One between the lamp and DMD and one between the DMD and lens.

I also wouldn't bet on more than 250 lumens in low lamp/high CR mode.

EDIT: I see Aero and I posted at the same time.